The senior pastor of Chicago's Moody Church says the natural disasters that have struck places like Myanmar and China are symptoms of a whole world that's under judgment of sin – and not just a swipe by God at any particular sinners.
HANOI, May 16 (Compass Direct News) – Local officials in Lao Cai province have confiscated the land and home of a former opium addict because of his phenomenal success as an evangelist, local Christian sources said.
ISTANBUL, May 16 (Compass Direct News) – Pakistani police have jailed a Christian doctor after “blasphemy” charges incited a mob attack on his home last week in Punjab province.
Jim Hutchens, the head of a Christian Zionist group, agrees wholeheartedly with President Bush's contention that talking with Iran is equivalent to trying to appease the Nazis in 1939. But he wishes the president would apply that same standard when dealing with Palestinian terrorists.
A new study shows that people of faith in America have a huge heart in terms of giving to Third World countries -- and the study cites a surprising dollar figure.
The president of one of the largest Christian universities in the U.S. says he never endorsed the recently released document "An Evangelical Manifesto."
The official death toll nearly doubled to 78,000 from Myanmar's killer cyclone as heavy rains on Friday lashed much of the area stricken two weeks ago, further hampering relief ... more >>
More than a dozen rabbis, including two from Israel, were in attendance this week as this conservative Muslim sheikdom opened one of the Gulf's first scholarly centers dedicated to interfaith ... more >>
While it may seem like everyone believes in global warming and the impending catastrophe it will bring, a group of conservative Christians countered that message Thursday by launching a national campaign to gather one million signatures for a statement that says Christians must not believe in all the ... more >>
Christians of all walks of life are responding to the decision by the California Supreme Court to legalize gay “marriage” Thursday with a rallying cry to fight the ruling by any means ... more >>
Inflated accounts of how many Muslims are converting to Christianity are putting the lives of these vulnerable followers of Jesus Christ at risk, warns an expert on Islam and ... more >>
A public school in Mississippi has become the center of a national controversy after a teacher reportedly forced her 6th grade class to vote who among their classmates were the most likely to get pregnant, contract HIV, go to jail, or die by the age ... more >>
Michaelene Fredenburg has launched a new outreach effort to combat what she describes as “the biggest and most serious plague in America” – ... more >>
This week, Hollywood is bringing the second book of C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia to the silver screen. And whether you are a parent introducing your kids to Narnia for the first time, or looking for an excuse to recapture the magical wonder of your own childhood, it is a good time to dust off ... more >>
Many of us can hardly wait for the release of the second film in the Chronicles of Narnia series. Prince Caspian will arrive in theaters this ... more >>
Over the past few weeks, a national polling firm for LifeWay Research and the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission conducted a survey asking Americans to respond to this statement: “I am concerned that at times Christians are too involved in ... more >>
Christians in several areas of Zimbabwe faced more food shortages Wednesday, May 14, amid ongoing turmoil and reported persecution of churches in the country, once called 'the breadbasket of Africa.' more >>
An Algerian Christian detained five days for carrying a Bible and personal Bible study books was handed a 300-euro (US$460) fine and a one-year suspended prison sentence last week, an Algerian church leader said. more >>
Muslim villagers in Mymensingh district eager to rid the area of the Christian work of a local pastor have gang-raped his 13-year-old daughter, the girl's father said. more >>
Christian missionaries in Bhutan, a predominately Buddhist nation, faced new challenges Thursday, May 8, nearly a month after villagers were reportedly expelled from their home for becoming Christians. more >>
Native missionaries in Maharashtra, India’s third largest state, continued their activities Wednesday, May 7, amid mounting opposition against Christianity in the area, BosNewsLife learned. more >>
Muslim extremists and local government authorities last week threatened to tear down a church building under construction in North Sumatra even though church leaders met requirements of Indonesia’s draconian law on worship places, the church's pastor said. more >>
Villagers in India's state of Madhya Pradesh on Saturday, May 3, recalled that exactly one month ago a local Christian leader was killed because his faith in Christ was wrongly understood, BosNewsLife monitored. more >>
Former police and security officers in North Korea told a U.S. government body that their superiors had instructed them to play the role of Christians and infiltrate "underground" prayer meetings in order to incriminate, arrest, imprison and sometimes execute believers in North Korea. more >>
The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Gujarat state has implemented an "anti-conversion" law passed in 2003, increasing Christians' fears that it will open the door to false accusations by Hindu extremists. more >>
Macedonia's controversial new Religion Law was due to come into force Thursday, May 1, a move rights groups say is designed to prevent the Serbian Orthodox Church of gaining legal status and could target unregistered Christian groups and congregations. more >>
Christians in several parts of Indonesia faced another difficult day Wednesday, April 23, amid reports that Islamic militant groups and local governments in Indonesia have closed at least 110 churches from 2004 to 2007. more >>
There was uncertainty Monday, April 21, about the status of hundreds of Dalit Christians who church leaders said were likely forced to re-convert to Hinduism, in what organizers called the "first ever mass conversion" in India's state of Tamil Nadu. more >>
A bookstore owner in Beijing was still behind bars Saturday, April 19, a month after he was re-arrested for publishing Bibles and Christian literature, his wife said. more >>
Chinese security forces detained dozens of House Church Christians in Xinjiang Autonomous Region, forcing them to show allegiance to the government as part of crackdown similar to a campaign against Buddhist monks in nearby Tibet, rights watchers said Thursday, April 17. more >>
A charismatic Christian in Uzbekistan remained missing Saturday, April 12, more than a week after he was reportedly detained as part of a government crackdown on Protestant believers and other religious communities in this Islamic nation. more >>
Members of a United Methodist congregation in Russia were without a church Sunday, April 13, after authorities closed it for running a Sunday School without government permission, the latest in a series of police raids targeting Christian education, Christians said. more >>
An Algerian Christian was handed a two-year suspended sentence for “proselytism” yesterday amid an ongoing government crackdown on 26 of Algeria’s 50 Protestant congregations, a church leader said. more >>
House church leaders and other Christians remained detained Sunday, April 6, in China’s Sichuan Province, on charges of running an "evil cult" after security forces raided their house church and Sunday School, fellow Christians said. more >>
A devoted Christian in Uzbekistan’s second largest city faced more police interrogations Saturday, April 5, after security forces broke up a Christian home meeting, a well-informed rights group told BosNewsLife. more >>
A Vietnamese Degar Montagnard Christian who refused to join the Communist-backed church in Vietnam’s Central Highlands has been tortured to death in prison, while other detainees were beaten for declining to renounce their faith in Christ, representatives told BosNewsLife. more >>
The senior pastor of Chicago's Moody Church says the natural disasters that have struck places like Myanmar and China are symptoms of a whole world that's under judgment of sin – and not just a swipe by God at any particular sinners.
About 4,000 Buddhist leaders are in Vietnam for a major conference being held under the auspices of the United Nations. 
Jim Hutchens, the head of a Christian Zionist group, agrees wholeheartedly with President Bush's contention that talking with Iran is equivalent to trying to appease the Nazis in 1939. But he wishes the president would apply that same standard when dealing with Palestinian terrorists.
Boston was the site for a recent homosexual youth rally designed to bring awareness of oppression by the alleged "homophobic" society.
A new study shows that people of faith in America have a huge heart in terms of giving to Third World countries -- and the study cites a surprising dollar figure. 
The president of one of the largest Christian universities in the U.S. says he never endorsed the recently released document "An Evangelical Manifesto."
An Arizona court has ruled against school choice for parents, forcing them to continue sending their children to failing public schools. 
